@sergioad
Absolutely, the ability to adjust the theme settings within Recalbox instead of via the config.xml will be implemented as It's great feature and one I wish was included in Retropie myself.
The custom control icons I use are to maintain the look of the theme so I'd really like to use them but I'll see - they could also be optional.

Sadly a port of the NeoGeo mini theme wouldn't currently be possible as unless I'm mistaken Recalbox doesn't support any kind of Grid View (correct me if I'm wrong). the same will be true for the gridview carousel mode I'm adding to the Snes mini theme.

In regards to my last post I think I may have just found the answer in the themes.md file and it looks like it's possible so that will make porting easier. (I should have looked more carefully).

@helpman said in [RETROPIE THEME - PORT POSIBILITY] Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

Hi! I just bought a nes case for my pi3, and I'll be here just waiting for that port too :) I just LOVE the nes theme @ruckage made... crossing fingers for recalbox port :)

Port is definitely coming, I've been reworking things in the retropie version to make porting to recalbox and then maintaining both in the future easier.

Hello. I have a quick question regarding the $system variable in recalbox. Can anyone tell me if you can use the '$system' variable within the include tag.

For example something like:

<include>./layout/$system.xml</include>

The ability to do this is now being added to retropie and it would be useful when porting my theme if the same was possible also in recalbox.

Hi, just a quick update for everyone. I've put a lot of work into the theme the past week in order to merge the snes and nes mini themes together. It turned out that it was a much bigger task than I originally anticipated but it seems to be working well now. I still need to add the Famicom theme and I have a few bugs to iron out but I'm much closer now to getting the Recalbox version made now that everything is all together (makes much more sense to port 1 theme rather than 3 separate themes).

You can read about the updates I've made on the retropie forum if you're interested: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12583/snes-mini-theme/708

@mediamogul
Thanks for supporting me here, I appreciate it.

@abunille
Thanks or the reply, everyone here has been very friendly and I'm grateful for your patience and understanding.
The port is still going ahead. My plan currently is to merge the nes/famicom/snes themes into one as it will be much easier to port and maintain 1 theme rather than 3. After that I can then keep both the retropie and recalbox versions updated simultaneously.

Out of interest is it possible now to compile the recalbox version of ES on windows? I don't think it is (I did try myself a while back) but thought it was worth asking. If not I'll see about setting up a Linux machine to make working on the theme a little easier as it's not the best experience developing a theme solely on the pi itself.

Thanks for the support @Substring , and you're correct I'll post as soon as I have anything ready.
That being said I honestly don't mind people asking how things are going as long as I'm not being nagged every 5 minutes :) .

I've been very sidetracked recently for various reasons - most recently because grid view has just been added to retropie which is very exciting news and I want to add support for it to my themes. I think I've kept you all waiting too long already though so I will get to work on the recalbox ports starting today.

So in answer to you question @jrochagouveia no news yet but there will be soon :)

Out of interest which theme are you all most interested in? The nes mini theme or the snes mini theme?

Apologies for the delay, I've had a lot going on this past month so haven't had much time, I will get the theme ported very soon though.

Sorry for the late reply, now the changes are implemented I'll get to porting the theme. You'll have to give me little time.

@supernature2k said in [RETROPIE THEME - PORT POSIBILITY] Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@ruckage Hi,
I already worked on your theme (just structural changes, not art) to adapt it but won't release. What I can do is provide you the files so you can have a look.

Thanks, if you can send it to me I can have look to see what changes you made. I'm planning to re-format the theme but that would be helpful to show me how the new features work.

@substring
Fingers crossed they'll be added soon.

@gaetan said in [RETROPIE THEME - PORT POSIBILITY] Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@substring Are you talking about the white barre in the carrousel ??
i'm keeping my breath and crossing my fingers :)

Yeah, the main changes I would need are the carousel customisation. Assuming its the same as on Retropie you can customise pretty much everything - position, bar height, bar width, bar colour, orientation (horizontal or vertical), Icon size, icon scaling factor, etc.

Hi,

I was waiting for some changes to be added to recalbox so that I can port the theme correctly (carousel improvements for example) - have those changes been included in the latest version?